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Rural
In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. -
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Electrification
the action or process of charging something with electricity. -
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International Cotton Exposition
International Cotton Exposition was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 5 to December 31 of 1881. -
Henry Grady
Henry Woodfin Grady was a journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. -
1906 Atlanta Riot
During the Atlanta race riot that occurred September 22-24, 1906, white mobs killed dozens of blacks, wounded scores of others, and inflicted considerable property damage. -
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World War I (WWI)
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. -
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County Unit System
The County Unit System was a voting system used by the U.S. state of Georgia to determine a victor in statewide primary elections from 1917 until 1962. -
Tom Watson and the Populists
The public life of Thomas E. Watson is perhaps one of the more perplexing and controversial among Georgia politicians. -
Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon was an African American entrepreneur and businessman. He was also was the first African-American millionaires -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The New Deal was a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression. -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews. -
Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. -
Social Security
The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. -
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World War II (WWII)
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Eugene Talmadge
Eugene Talmadge was a Democratic politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. -
W.E.B. DuBois
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. -
Leo Frank Case
In April 1913 the body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. -
Richard Russell
Richard Brevard Russell Jr. was an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Governor of Georgia before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 to 1971. -
Plessy V. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896.
